Ciao!Hi! Hola!
I am finally back to my beloved blog after almost 1 month. And we live in Mexico, now! Our provisional house is my parents-in-law apartment, in Ensenada, Baja California, located 110 km south of the border with the United States (San Diego, California). We (I mean me, Stefano, my wife Martha, and my sons Esteban and David) left Italy june 11 and spent 2 days in Los Angeles (California), before reaching Ensenada by car. We had 11 suitcases, 4 hand travel bags and my laptop! Not easy, but…we got it!
June 14 was my 43rd birthday, so, we went to the hills around Ensenada for a “carne asada” (barbecue) celebrating it. The welcome was warm and very kind not just by my “new” family, but by everybody here (parents and friends).
So, we started what it can really be defined a “new life”. But, despite this “perspective” seems to be very “strong”, our life is very simple. We are on vacation, at the moment: our house (if I can say that!) is always full of people. Right at the end of june my sister-in-law, Cindy, came from Leòn (Guanajuato), with her 4 children (Julieta, Eduardo, Juan Pablo and Carolina): so, you can imagine how crowded of children is our life! It is fantastic and… a little bit tiring.
Esteban is a sort of “commander in chief” of the “gang” (“the little rascals”, which, for an extraordinary coincidence, is the english translation of our surname, Monellini), and David seems to “double” his already big energies! They are so so happy to be here and everybody is completely falled in love with them!
At the beginning of the last week all “mothers and children” moved to “the house on the seaside”: it is a beautiful house in a place called “Baja Beach” (Punta Estero) at about 30 km. away from Ensenada. So I joined them everyday by car at lunch time and came back at night…except the last week-end, I spent there the whole nights and days since friday to sunday. The place is incredible, as you can see: the house is only 70 mts. from the Pacific Ocean, and, once you opens the doors you are alrerady on the seaside! Sometimes in the morning the weather is a bit cloudy and foggy (as it happens, more or less, in the bay areas), but at 10-11 a.m. the sun is high in the sky and it is wonderful to spend time there or going for a walk or even running on the coast.
Today we are again in the Ensenada’s house, because we had a meeting with the responsible of Esteban and David’s new school “Avante”: it seems a very nice place and I am very happy that the children in the primary school have 2 hours of english teaching per day. Everybody here, of course, speaks spanish: so, Martha and I took the decision that we will both speak to Esteban and David in italian!
Since tomorrow (probably for this and the next week) my family will move back to the house on the beach and I will spend half-a-day every day until the next weekend.
Last week I had my first job-interview with the director of the faculty of “Marketing” in the Xochicalco University (Ensenada): it was a good experience, the director told me that they are available since september to offer me one (or maybe more) subjects to teach: meanwhile, he gave me other e-mail addresses of the directors of two faculties in the same University, Psychology and Communication, so I sent them my CV and I am waiting for other enterviews. I also sent my CV to other 2 universities, one in Ensenada and the other one in Tijuana, waiting for their answers.
But teaching at the university is not my only project, here, there are so many others, and soon I will talk to you about them. Just stay tuned!
The rest of my time, apart from spending time with my children and with Martha’s family is actually “on the web”: through skype I am quite frequently in touch with my italian family and with my friends all over the world. Through “Facebook” I can send messages and photos and I can see everyday the italian news on the italian web channel Sky TG24. I also started “learning” to “drive” here in Mexico (I drive not so bad!) and almost everyday I cook different kinds of pasta for the mexican people.
That’s all for now. I will keep you informed constantly about…our life in Ensenada! Adiòs!
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